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1038945

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date	10/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, further to his oral statement of 7 January 2019 on Migrant Crossings, Official Report column 85, whether asylum seekers arriving on the Kent Coast since 1 October 2018 have had their applications for asylum processed using standard procedures.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	207208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>Over 500 migrants, the majority of whom are Iranian nationals, attempted to travel to the UK on small vessels in 2018. The vast majority of those attempts were made in the last three months of the year.</p><p>All asylum claims made in the UK are processed, managed and decided in line with Home Office policy, guidance and relevant case law and legislation. This supports an efficient and effective asylum process for the UK and ensures that asylum claims are handled in a manner that is appropriate to the individual, including ensuring any reasonable adjustments and safe-guarding needs are considered.</p><p>All asylum claimants must be treated with dignity and fairness regardless of their age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion or belief.</p><p>An asylum claim will be registered where an individual makes a particularised protection claim for the first time, in person and in their own right. That does not mean that the UK will always be responsible for making a substantive decision.</p><p>As part of that process, there is a need to assess whether what a person is saying amounts to a protection claim and if so, whether the claim is admissible to the decision-making process. Inadmissibility is a concept by which the Home Office can decline to consider an asylum claim because the individual already enjoys sufficient protection in another country, or another country is responsible for considering the claim.</p><p>We are unable to state how many asylum seekers arriving on the Kent coast since 1 October 2018 have had their claims registered and processed using standard procedures, as we do not comment on the status of cases once they have claimed asylum.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/01/2019 16:54:30 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1038999

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Travellers: Census
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Gypsy and Irish Traveller communities are classified as being specific communities in need of supported participation with the 2021 census; and what steps he plans to put in place to ensure census liaison staff reach those communities.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	207229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 17/01/2019 16:23:03 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ 207229 & PQ 207230 (1).pdf title UKSA Response
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1039000

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Roma: Census
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Roma will be classified as a specific community in need of supported participation in the 2021 census, and what steps his Department is taking to ensure that census liaison staff reach those communities.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	207230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 17/01/2019 16:23:45 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ 207229 & PQ 207230 (1).pdf title UKSA Response
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1039033

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Maternity Services: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Ministerial Statement of 12 December 2018 on NHS Overseas Charging Regulations Review 2017, HCWS1174, what assessment was made of the needs of (a) pregnant women and (b) new mothers in that review.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	207239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department engaged with 79 organisations as part of the process of reviewing the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 and received 57 formal responses. The Department met with and received responses from a number of organisations with expertise in maternity care, including a royal college, maternity staff groups and maternity stakeholder groups. A number of other organisations and individuals who contributed to the review also commented on the impact of the amendment regulations on maternity service users.</p><p> </p><p>Although maternity treatment must always be regarded as immediately necessary, and therefore not subject to the upfront charging requirement, some evidence suggested that overseas visitors may not always be aware of this. The Department has therefore committed to develop user-friendly, culturally-appropriate guidance, that will clarify that maternity treatment is never subject to the upfront charging requirement and ensure this reaches those who may be impacted. The Department has also updated national guidance (published 24 December 2018) to make clear that termination of pregnancy services are to be regarded as urgent, and therefore not subject to the upfront charging requirement, where the overseas visitor cannot reasonably be expected to leave the UK before the date which an abortion may no longer be a viable option.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of the 2017 amendment regulations some secondary care services, including community midwifery services, have become chargeable. However, these services were already chargeable if delivered by hospital employed or directed staff and the removal of the exemption was important in ensuring that charging rules apply in a fair and consistent manner, regardless of where a service is provided. The exemption from the charging regulations for conditions caused by sexual violence remains in place to protect this vulnerable group.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 207240 question first answered 17/01/2019 12:00:46 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1039034

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Maternity Services: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Written Statement of 12 December 2018 on NHS Overseas Charging Regulations Review 2017, HCWS1174, what discussions he held with (a) healthcare professionals, (b) non-governmental organisations and (c) others with an expertise in maternity care as part of that review.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	207240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department engaged with 79 organisations as part of the process of reviewing the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 and received 57 formal responses. The Department met with and received responses from a number of organisations with expertise in maternity care, including a royal college, maternity staff groups and maternity stakeholder groups. A number of other organisations and individuals who contributed to the review also commented on the impact of the amendment regulations on maternity service users.</p><p> </p><p>Although maternity treatment must always be regarded as immediately necessary, and therefore not subject to the upfront charging requirement, some evidence suggested that overseas visitors may not always be aware of this. The Department has therefore committed to develop user-friendly, culturally-appropriate guidance, that will clarify that maternity treatment is never subject to the upfront charging requirement and ensure this reaches those who may be impacted. The Department has also updated national guidance (published 24 December 2018) to make clear that termination of pregnancy services are to be regarded as urgent, and therefore not subject to the upfront charging requirement, where the overseas visitor cannot reasonably be expected to leave the UK before the date which an abortion may no longer be a viable option.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of the 2017 amendment regulations some secondary care services, including community midwifery services, have become chargeable. However, these services were already chargeable if delivered by hospital employed or directed staff and the removal of the exemption was important in ensuring that charging rules apply in a fair and consistent manner, regardless of where a service is provided. The exemption from the charging regulations for conditions caused by sexual violence remains in place to protect this vulnerable group.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 207239 question first answered 17/01/2019 12:00:46 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green